Printer Issue

[Richard Wilson]

All,

This may be a Windoze issue, but perhaps someone can give me some
insights...

I have an Epson Stylus CX5400 printer/scanner combination device
attached (via USB) to my Linux workstation running Fedora Core 3 (which
I keep up to date).  The printer works fine with Fedora, which came with
the necessary drivers for that specific model.

In order to share the printer with my work laptop and my wife's laptop,
(both running Win XP) I first defined the Epson as a shared IPP printer
to which my work laptop was able to establish a connection.  that is, in
the XP printer set up I told it the IPP printer definition and it found
it.  I then went on to tell Windows that the printer was an Epson CX5400
and it found the necessary drivers for it and appeared happy.

When I tried to print to it though, the XP system ground almost to a
halt and didn't print anything.

I was able to get the setup working by deleting the IPP definition and
creating a Samba print queue, and I can now print from both XP systems.

This is perhaps my third or fourth serious foray into Samba and as I
have to fight Windoze bigots frequently, I'd prefer not to cater to
Windows in any way and go with a more standards based solution...

Any ideas from anyone as to why the IPP piece didn't work?

TIA,

Rich Wilson